ElsaMarie D'Silva, MBA

Get to know ElsaMarie

ElsaMarie D’Silva is the Founder & Managing Director of Red Dot Foundation (Safecity)
which is a platform that crowdsources personal experiences of sexual violence
and abuse in public spaces. Since Safecity started in Dec 2012, it has become the largest
crowd map on the issue in India, Kenya, Cameroon and Nepal.

ElsaMarie is currently an alumni of the US State Department’s Fortune Program and
a fellow with Rotary Peace, Aspen New Voices, Vital Voices and a BMW Foundation
Responsible Leader. She is listed as one of BBC Hindi’s 100 Women and has won
Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Dusan Stojanovic (European Angel Investor
of the Year 2013), Government of India Niti Aayog’s #WomenTransformingIndia
award and The Digital Woman Award in Social Impact by SheThePeople.

She has penned articles that have appeared in CNN, Huffington Post, WIP amongst
others. She has spoken about her work at the Aspen Ideas Festival , at TEDx MidAtlantic,
UN Women, State Department, Vital Voices South to South Leadership Summit.
She has been a panelist for NDI, SheThePeople and hosted a roundtable at City-
Lab London 2015.

Prior to Safecity, she was in the aviation industry for 20 years where she worked with
Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines. Her last portfolio was Vice President Network
Planning & Charters where she oversaw the planning and implementation of 500 daily
flights.

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FEATURED: Harassment and worse in the air

11/29/2016

The Hindu

Last month, a male passenger on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Burbank called out “ooh sexy” while the flight attendant demonstrated the use of the life vest. When she told him to be “respectful”, he responded: “I’m just fooling around.”...

FEATURED: Moms Around The World Teach Their Kids A Lot Of Cool Rules

5/8/2016

NPR

Don't hit your sister! Veggies are good for you. No, we can't watch Frozen every night. No matter where you live around the globe, moms pretty much teach their children the same lessons. But in honor of Mother's Day, we wanted to track down a few of the world's more...